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  Map Zones : Cameroon Map
Cameroon' s first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held in 1992 followed by municipal elections in 1996 and another round of legislative and presidential elections in 1997.
Cameroon, republic in western Africa, bounded on the north by Lake Chad; on the east by Chad and the Central African Republic; on the south by the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea; and on the west by the Bight of Biafra (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean) and Nigeria.
The Bantu settled in the Cameroons from equatorial Africa.
kids.mapzones.com /world/cameroon   (2807 words)

  
 History of Cameroon
Although the Portuguese arrived on Cameroon's coast in the 1500s, malaria prevented significant European settlement and conquest of the interior until the late 1870s, when large supplies of the malaria suppressant, quinine, became available.
The early European presence in Cameroon was primarily devoted to coastal trade and the acquisition of slaves.
Cameroon has generally enjoyed stability, which has permitted the development of agriculture, roads, and railways, as well as a petroleum industry.
infotut.com /geography/Cameroon   (555 words)

  
 MapZones.com : Cameroon Map
The coast of present-day Cameroon was explored late in the 15th century by the Portuguese, who named the estuary to the south of Cameroon Mountain Rio das Camerões (“river of prawns”).
Cameroon is governed under a constitution promulgated in 1972 and subsequently revised.
Legislative power in Cameroon is vested in the single-chamber National Assembly, which consists of 180 members elected to five-year terms.
atlas.mapzones.com /cameroon/cameroon.php   (1826 words)

  
 Cameroon - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It is bound by Equatorial Guinea to the southwest, Gabon to the south, Congo to the southeast, the Central African Republic to the east, Chad to the northeast, Nigeria to the northwest and the Gulf of Guinea to the west.
The principal ethnic groups consist of the Cameroon Highlanders who account for 31% of the population, the Equatorial Bantu for 19%, the Kirdi for 11%, the Fulani for 10%, the Northwestern Bantu for 8% and the Nigritic for 7%.
In May 1972 Cameroon adopted a new constitution that eliminated the two separate states and Cameroon was declared the United Republic of Cameroon.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/cameroon.htm   (1301 words)

  
 Contents page of Judgment Cameroon v. Nigeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Cameroon states, for its part, that the declarations of acceptance of the Court's compulsory jurisdiction "are not treaties within the meaning of the Vienna Convention" and "it was clearly no part of the intentions of the drafters of the.
Cameroon insists that it stated clearly in its pleadings that the facts referred to in order to establish Nigeria's responsibility were only of an indicative nature and that it could, where necessary, amplify those facts when it comes to the merits.
Cameroon is of the view that the first argument invoked by Nigeria concerns neither jurisdiction nor the admissibility of its Application, but simply the method whereby the merits of the case are best addressed, a decision which falls within the discretion of the Court.
www.icj-cij.org /icjwww/idocket/icn/icnjudgment/icn_ijudgment_980611_content.htm   (16574 words)

  
 BBC News | AFRICA | Cameroon separatists killed
Southern Cameroons then merged with neighbouring French-speaking Cameroon, but leaders of the English-speaking minority say they are treated as second-class citizens, and have lobbied for autonomy for many years.
A correspondent for the BBC in Cameroon said the situation is still tense and that the curfew imposed in the English-speaking region last Friday is likely to continue for at least a week.
Cameroon was united in 1972 and called the United Republic of Cameroon but in 1984, two years after President Paul Biya came to power he dropped the united from the title.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/africa/1574661.stm   (467 words)

  
 Cameroon
Cameroon is a Central African nation on the Gulf of Guinea, bordered by Nigeria, Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.
Mount Cameroon (13,350 ft; 4,069 m), near the coast, is the highest elevation in the country.
Cameroon, Mount - Cameroon, Mount, active volcano, 13,354 ft (4,070 m) high, in the Cameroon Highlands, W Cameroon;...
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107382.html   (705 words)

  
 Cameroon: Putting the park in the hands of the people
The residents were concerned that the zoning did not take into consideration their current land use patterns, such as the collection of medicinal plants, traditional fishing grounds, cattle routes, ritual and/or sacred sites and farming, especially the ever-expanding cotton fields.
The meeting recommended that professional hunters' have their obligations and responsibilities towards local communities clearly stated in the contracts awarding them hunting zones.
The human-wildlife conflict is also acute in north Cameroon as a result of frequent encroachment into farmland and human habitation areas by wildlife, elephants in particular.
www.scienceinafrica.co.za /2001/july/park.htm   (495 words)

  
 French Colonies - Cameroon
The jungles of the south and the savannas of the north are suggested by the green and yellow stripes.
The Republic of Cameroon is an independent state in western Africa bordered by Nigeria to the northwest; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon to the south; and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest (see map).
Cameroon is mainly rural, and the central and southeastern parts of the country are sparsely populated.
www.discoverfrance.net /Colonies/Cameroon.shtml   (1371 words)

  
 Cameroon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The former French Cameroon and part of British Cameroons merged in 1961 to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon which in 1972 was renamed the United Republic of Cameroon; since 1984 the country is known as the Republic of Cameroon.
In 1961 the French and British portions of Cameroon were united, the French portion having gained independence a year earlier.
This provision was part of the reforms instituted in 1996 to the Constitution, that had been originally written in 1972.
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ca/Cameroon.htm   (429 words)

  
 Cameroon News
Cameroon's players are confident that they can beat Egypt in their final World Cup qualifier and qualify for their sixth World Cup finals.
Cameroon police arrested three men after intercepting a military truck carrying 98 elephant tusks and the carcasses of deer, hedgehogs and protected chimpanzees, a police officer said.
A Cameroon government scientist dismissed on Tuesday a warning that the natural dam holding back Lake Nyos in the northwest of the country was about to burst, threatening thousands of lives.
www.topix.net /world/cameroon   (934 words)

  
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Most data applications in Cameroon do not have standard classifications and so all applications are given the same level of sensitivity and confidentiality except where the staff apply their intuitive perception.
Cameroon signed with IBI a convention establishing a joint scholarship fund which enabled many Cameroonians to attend seminars and obtained scholarships.
Cameroon signed on 29 January, 1971, in the Chadian Capital a convention between it and other countries of the sub-region with a view to establishing an African institute of information technology in Libreville.
www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/ECA/nan2b.html   (12416 words)

  
 WWF CAMEROON NEWS ROOM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Since Cameroon Programme Office in Yaounde is the main base station and has 24hr Internet connectivity, the second phase of the project shall involve the development and establishment of a system where by mails can be forwarded and received through the Internet.
Over 45 quality scripts were received from nine of the 10 administrative provinces of Cameroon from which 34 were selected for consideration by a group of five independent adjudicators, one staff each from the Policy Programme of WWF and MINEF and two consultants.
They are thus entitled to 100 per cent of the land tax paid by sport hunters for the lease of their village territories and 10 per cent from accrued government taxes on trophies.
tchuipet.ifrance.com /newsroom/newsroom.htm   (1456 words)

  
 Communications Of Cameroon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
If you would like to use this flag of Cameroon or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
If you would like to use this map of Cameroon or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
If you would like to use this information for Cameroon or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
www.appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/cameroon_country_communications.shtml   (228 words)

  
 Cameroon: Overhaul of telecoms regulatory regime
As part of the restructuring of the country's telecommunications sector, the government of Cameroon established the Agence de Regulation des Telecommunications (ART) in 1998 as the sector's independent regulatory body.
The restructuring of Cameroon's communications sector culminated in 2000 and 2001, with the privatisation of state carriers Camtel and Camtel Mobiles and the award of a second cellular licence to France Telecom.
The other segments of the communications market (falling under the value-added services group) are fully liberalised; seven ISPs offer Internet services, and a handful have been emerging with services including satellite-based television and data services.
www.ebusinessforum.com /index.asp?layout=rich_story&channelid=4&categoryid=31&doc_id=3456   (481 words)

  
 12/05/01 -- Cameroon: WWF and loggers inaugurate partnership   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Yaounde-Cameroon: WWF Cameroon Programme and the twin logging companies Société Industrielle des Bois Africains (SIBAF) and Forestière de Campo (HFC), subsidiaries of the Groupe Bolloré, recently signed a preliminary partnership agreement inaugurating a new co-operation era in sustainable forest management.
This gave some of the formal logging companies in Cameroon the opportunity to take a long-term perspective of their operations and to commit to sustainable forest management and certification under standards of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), as it is the case of SIBAF/HFC.
The agreement between WWF and SIBAF/HFC is one of the results, in Cameroon, of the Sustainable Forest Management/Certification (SFM/C) Project initiated by WWF-Belgium and funded by the European Union (EU).
forests.org /archive/africa/wwlogina.htm   (591 words)

  
 MTN and WWF come together to protect the environment - News from Mobile Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
MTN Cameroon, true to her desire to invest in social and environmental development for the benefit of local populations is partnering with WWF, the conservation organisation.
Through this action, MTN Cameroon is perfectly in line with her mission, which is becoming “a vital part of a communicating society”.
In Cameroon, the priority intervention sites are located in the Congo Basin (Lobeke, Dja), in the Congolese coastal forests (Campo Ma’an), in the mountain forests (Kupe-Bakossi) as well as in the savannah zones.
www.mobileafrica.net /news-africa.php?id=567   (877 words)

  
 Cameroon Cameroun on the Internet
Jacob Crawfurd's 100 photographs of Cameroon, a panorama photograph of the valley in Bafang, Cameroon, East Africa slide show and video clips, plus a few1937 historical photographs (no captions).
As the gatekeeper to the Congo Basin, Cameroon is an important indicator for the future of the entire region." "Samuel Nguiffo, 33, directs the Center for Environment and Development (CED) in Cameroon's capital, Yaounde.
LESA serves current students and graduates of Our Lady of Lourdes Secondary School, Bamenda, Cameroon which was established in 1963 as a secondary school for girls, one of only 3 secondary schools for girls in Cameroon at the time.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/camer.html   (5450 words)

  
 IOL: Cameroon holds 'spying' SA journalist
Yaounde - Cameroon's army is holding two BBC journalists under house arrest on suspicion of spying in the disputed and potentially oil-rich Bakassi peninsula, the British Broadcasting Corporation said on Thursday.
Nigeria and Cameroon have come close to war over Bakassi, the subject of a long-standing border row, but the International Court of Justice ruled in 2002 that it should go to Cameroon.
Yonke said he had spoken with Cameroon's communications minister, who had told him he could do nothing to secure their release.
www.int.iol.co.za /?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=qw1089890643619B253   (444 words)

  
 Home - Yaounde, Cameroon
He was speaking during a conference held in Yaounde on October 17, 2005 by Transparency International – Cameroon on the theme “Measuring and Improving Governance”.
Douala, Cameroon -- Journalists and media representatives from 23 African countries opened a five-day conference October 3 in Douala, Cameroon, on the subject of media and emerging democracies.
The conference, organized by the U.S. Embassy in Yaoundé, Cameroon, focuses on ways African journalists can work together to strengthen their profession and help each other meet their greatest challenges, as well as begin to establish a continent-wide network.
yaounde.usembassy.gov   (517 words)

  
 Cameroon - Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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www.atlastraveldirectory.com /dir/221/108   (305 words)

  
 Greece - Cameroon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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www.atlastraveldirectory.com /dir/108/221   (310 words)

  
 Pambazuka News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Pambazuka News (Pambazuka means arise or awaken in Kiswahili) is a tool for progressive social change in Africa.
Pambazuka News is produced by Fahamu, an organisation that uses information and communication technologies to serve the needs of organisations and social movements that aspire to progressive social change.
Fahamu has been selected by Tech Museum of Innovation to receive a Tech Museum Award from a field of 301 candidates, representing 64 countries.
www.pambazuka.org /index.php?id=15478   (806 words)

  
 Cameroon: from the All Country Info reference guide to country facts
Cameroon: from the All Country Info reference guide to country facts
Highly career-focused education, designed to accelerate the careers of working professionals.
Cameroon: A summary of information about Cameroon, from government research data as well as independent research and other sources.
www.allcountryinfo.org /cameroon/cameroon.shtml   (41 words)

  
 Communications in Africa
The number of telephones, televisions and newspapers are mainly found in urban areas.
There is a high density of communications facilities there and very little, as a general rule, in rural areas.
It may be reproduced freely with due acknowledgement.
dspace.dial.pipex.com /suttonlink/332tab.html   (174 words)

  
 VoIP offers Africa a less costly calling option   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
African nations are increasingly turning to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to bypass expensive conventional telephone systems, with the trend indicated in the International Telecommunication Union's annual report showing that outbound VoIP surged to 2.06 billion minutes last year compared to 1.34 billion minutes in the previous year.
This trend shows the huge need for affordable telecommunication throughout Africa, especially for long-distance calls, Anjeh Nang of Afrotel Communications in Douala, Cameroon, has said.
In some countries, including Cameroon, VoIP is viewed with suspicion for fear that it will leak potential revenue from carriers that had been telecommunication leaders during days of government monopolies.
www.itworld.com /Net/3303/020924africavoip/search.html   (218 words)

  
 Acceris Communications Partner, calling-up.com - ID # 228016 - xPectations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Calls are billed in one-minute increments, with partial minutes of usage rounded up to the next full minute.
Customers who wish to change or update their rate plan must contact Acceris Communications' customer support directly.
Additional help and resources are available by calling Acceris Communications Customer Support toll-free at 1-800-569-8700.
www.xpectations.com /agent/1010834.asp?agid=228016&cc=237   (416 words)

  
 Communications Today: Wi-LAN Scores In Cameroon - Brief Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Communications Today: Wi-LAN Scores In Cameroon - Brief Article
High-speed wireless data technology developer Wi-LAN [Toronto: WIN] has sold C$1.1 million (US$745,000) of its wideband orthogonal frequency division modulation (OFDM)-based Libra fixed wireless access products and accessories to Cameroon Telecommunications, the national telecom carrier for the African nation of Cameroon.
Wi-LAN will provide and install its non-line-of-sight Libra products and accessories for Camtel's wireless telecommunications networks in the cities of Douala and Yaounde.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BMD/is_21_9/ai_97188771   (274 words)

  
 Cameroon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The former French Cameroon and part of British Cameroons merged in 1961 to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon which in 1972 was renamed the United Republic of Cameroon; since 1984 the country is known as the Republic of Cameroon or République du Cameroun (its official languages are English and French).
Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon official government site
Stanford University - Africa South of the Sahara: Cameroon directory category
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Cameroon.htm   (525 words)

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